ix, 388 pages : 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Inventing tradition: America's first literary histories / Layne Neeper -- Stocks and bonds: Pantheism and the chain of being in the American renaissance / Richard Hardack -- James Fenimore Cooper and American nativism / Thomas S. Gladsky -- The preaching record of Theodore Parker / Dean Grodzins, Joel Myerson -- Bronson Alcott's "Journal for 1838" (part two) / Larry A. Carlson -- Margaret Fuller's Boston conversations: the 1839-1840 series / Nancy Craig Simmons -- Texts from conversation: Margaret Fuller's influence on Emerson / Judith Mattson Bean -- The source of Thoreau's "Cato-Decius dialogue" / Ethel Seybold -- "A fearful price I have had to pay for loving him": Ellery Channing's troubled relationship with Ralph Waldo Emerson / Kathryn B. McKee -- The romance of mesmerism: Hawthorne's medium of romance / Samuel Coale -- References in Longfellow's Journals (1856-1882) to his important literary works / Edward L. Tucker -- Books received / Alan Brasher

plus-circle Add Review

comment

Reviews